Toward an honest commemoration of the American War in Vietnam
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The Pentagon Papers at 50: A NY Times Special Report
Secret hotel rooms and the classified documents that exposed the lies behind the Vietnam War and led to a landmark Supreme Court decision.
Cambodia deploys new batch of rat recruits to sniff out landmines
Twenty African giant pouched rats were recently imported from Tanzania and have undergone intense training.
Barbara Lee Introduces Bill to Help Vietnamese Victims of Agent Orange
“The United States has a moral responsibility to compensate the victims of the Agent Orange campaign,” declares Rep. Lee (D-CA) re. HR 3518.
‘Completely Lacking in Soldierly Qualities’: US Army & Jerry Garcia
“Garcia has steadfastly maintained a defective attitude toward superiors, authority, and military life in general,” noted the US Army.
Podcast: “They did it of their own volition” – Dissenting POWs
Tom Wilber & Jerry Lembcke — “The POWs who came out against the war … as far as anything they said … they did so as a matter of conscience.”
Invitation to Project RENEW 20th Anniversary Commemoration
Mark your calendars for August 12, 2021. We look forward to welcoming you to Quang Tri, Vietnam, in person or by online Zoom meeting.
Bard of the Viets. Review of Viet Thanh Nguyen’s new book “The Committed”
It took fifty years and a circuitous route through exile and a mix of Asian and colonial cultures for Vietnam to get its bard.
The Full Disclosure campaign is a Veterans For Peace effort to speak truth to power and keep alive the antiwar perspective on the American war in Viet Nam — with a series of 50th anniversary events now occurring. It represents a clear alternative to the Pentagon’s current efforts to sanitize and mythologize the Vietnam war and to thereby legitimize further unnecessary and destructive wars.
Upcoming Events
“All wars are fought twice, the first time on the battlefield, the second time in memory.”
— Viet Thanh Nguyen, Nothing Ever Dies: Vietnam and the Memory of War
Important
Paying The Price For Peace: The Story of S. Brian Willson
Paying the Price… Vietnam Veteran S. Brian Willson paid the price for peace by nearly being killed by a military train during a non-violent protest. Since then, he has not stopped calling attention to the US government’s defiance of international law through waging...
50 Years on the Frontlines: Phillip Jones Griffith Photographs
The Philip Jones Griffiths Foundation Presents: A one-page site containing background materials for the acclaimed show. Curated by George Carrano. Click to view more of Philip's photography.
Veterans for Peace Statement Opposing US Bombing of Iraq and Syria
Veterans know from first hand experience that you cannot bomb your way to peace. More bombing will ultimately mean more division, bloodshed, recruitment for extremist organizations, and a continual cycle of violent intervention. Veterans for Peace September 23, 2014 -...
Introducing “Peace and Planet News”; Order today!
We’re very excited to show you the front page of a new 24-page publication by the same editorial team that brought you Peace in Our Times for five years.
Memorial Day 2019
PLEASE WRITE A LETTER TO THE VIETNAM VETERANS MEMORIAL (THE WALL) When then-president Barack Obama announced his government was willing to spend $63 million on a series of commemorations of the American War in Viet Nam stretching over a decade, we in Veterans...
Second Volume of “Letters to the Wall” Now Available
Order via lulu.com The second volume has been put to print and will soon be available through Amazon, Barnes and Noble, etc. We have added a few new touches for this collection of letters delivered to The Wall in 2017 and 2018 — for one, we have provided detailed...
28-page Full Disclosure – Truth About America’s War in Vietnam Vol. 2
The paper is especially important in relation to the upcoming Burns/Novick documentary about the Vietnam War, which will not present the war as the massive U.S. crime based on lies and betrayals that it was. This paper clearly, definitively and very articulately,...
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